Eduaed schmidt



(No Model.)

B. SCHMIDT.

RAILWAY SLEEPER.

No. 349,524. Patented Sept. 21, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

EDUARD SCHMIDT, or ZIMMERSRODE, PRUSSIA, ASSIGNOR TO LUDWIG soHiiLKE, or UssELDORF, GERMANY.

\ RAILWAY-SLEEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,524, dated September 21, 1886.

Application filed April 22, 1886. Serial No. 199,797. (No model.) Patented in Germany July 14, 1885, No. 34,657.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDUA'RD SCHMIDT, a subject of the King of Prussia, and residing at Zimmersrode, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail way-Sleepers, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Germany on the 14th day of July, 1885, No. 34,657,) whereof the following is a specification.

My invention consistsin a new mode of constructing sleepers for railways of worn-out or other rails, of the broad-footed or Vignoles form, such as are generally employed at pres ent for railways.

In the annexed sheet of drawings, a sleeper carried out according to my invention is shown in combination with a pair of line-rails, by Figure 1 in sectional elevation, by Fig. 2 in transverse section, and by Fig. 3 in plan. Fig. 41s a sectional view showing to a larger scale the means for fastening the rails to the sleepers. Figs. 5 and 6 represent in sectional elevation and in transverse section the connection of the rails to each other which I preferto employ with my sleeper.

The sleepers are made out of two pieces of rails, to, of suitable length, laid on the si'de,

. with their heads in juxtaposition, so that the flanges which form the basis of the rails eonstitute the ribs that are to project into the ground, while the webs and one side of each of the heads constitute a broad bearing-surface,which rests upon the surface of the ground. The said pieces are connected together mainly by means of plates 1), forming the bedplates for the rails of the line a. In order to obtain a flat bearing-surface for the plates 1), suitable recesses are cut into the upper portions of the heads and the flanges of the sleeper-rails down to the webs of the same. On the plates 1) the line rails c are fastened by means of clamping-pieces d and by screw-bolts e, passing through the said pieces d,"the bedplates, and the sleeper-rails. A secure conneetion of the line-rails with the sleeper-rails and of the latter with each other is thus attained at the same time.

For the purpose of preventing the rails c from shifting sideward on the sleepers, the recesses of the rails a are preferably made of such width that the plates 1) exactly fit into so as to impart to the rails the necessary inclination toward each other.

The rails carried by the described sleepers may be connected together at their ends in any suitable manner; but I prefer to employ suspended j oints,and to securethe rails to each other by fish-plates f, Figs. 5 and 6, suitably bent so as to reach over the foot of the rail, and arranged to bearwith their ends (which have to be notched for this purpose) upon the adjacent sleepers or the corresponding bedplates, and to abut lengthwise with their lower portion against the sleepers, so that a longitudinal displacement of the rails may be prevented.

I claim as my invention 1. A sleeper for railways, consisting of two flanged rails placed with their heads in juxtaposition and secured together, substantially as set forth.

2. A sleeper for railways, consisting of two flangedrails plaeedin juxtapositionwith their webs horizontal, and cross-plates and bolts by which they are secured together, substantially as set forth.

3. A sleeper consisting of two flanged rails placed in juxtaposition with their webs horizontal, the flanges being cut away at suitable distances apart to admit the bases of the trackrails, substantially as set forth.

4. A sleeper for railways, consisting of two flanged rails placed with their heads in j uxtaposition and having their flanges cut awayat suitable distances apart, in combination with plates fitting in said cut-away places and bolts securing the whole together, substantially as set forth.

5. The combinati0n,\vith the rails a a, placed with their heads in juxtaposition and having their flanges cut away, of the plates 12, placed In testimonywhereof Ihave hereunto set my [0 in said cut-away places, the track-rails c,1'esthand in the presence of two subscribing wit ing upon said plates, the clamping-pieces d, nesses. and the bolts e, substantially as and for the 5 purposesset forth. EDUARD SCHMIDT. 6. A sleeper for railways, consisting of two 7 flanged rails placed in juxtaposition with their Witnesses: webs horizontal and secured together, sub- HENRY SPRINGMANN, stantially as set forth. B. RoI. 

